The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

构成那些获得尊重和赞扬的品质的主要成分是良好的本性、真理、良好的判断力和良好的教养。

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A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

总质量的一个基本原则逃过了太多管理者的注意:只有逐步完善相互依赖的人际关系,才能不断改进相互依赖的系统和过程。

You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.

你总是同时在写你最差的书和最好的书。赞美不会让你写得更好,也不应该让你写得更差。

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

因此,赞扬他人的美德只能鼓励自己的努力。

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

如果我不能压倒我的质量,我将压倒我的数量。

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

任何尊重的困难之处在于对你的期望更高。